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(2) Apaya Vichaya: Terrible calamities can result from attachment, hatred, indifference, ignorance and vowlessness"; thinking of these things.
(3) Vipaka Vichaya: "Happiness and sorrow are the result of the Vipaka or the ripening of our noble and ignoble karmas" thinking thus.
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(4) Samstana Vichaya: Meditating with concentration on the 14 Rajaloks comprising the upper, the lower and the middle worlds.
THE FOUR KINDS OF SHUKLADHYANAS:
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Pathakthva-Vitharka Savichar : Means variety by meditating on the various substances and their mental differences, Vitarka means 14 Purvas or Shruthas. Vichar the mutual activity among substances, sounds and the three yogas. The Shukladhyan comprises these three contemplations.
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(2) Ekatva Vitarka Avichar Dhyan: Ekatva mutual but depending only on one substance Avichar free from what is said already. These two kinds of meditation were carried out by masters of Agams.
(3) Sukshma Kriya Apratipati : This is a spiritual reaction born out of subtle yoga of the body at the time of the jiva reaching moksha which does not perish; which is Aprathi pati and which prevents at that time the activities and the propensities of body and mind.
(4) Vyuchchinna Kriya Anivarti In this, even the Sukshmakaya Yoga is destroyed; it is the Mountain stage. On account of the destruction of all Karmas, Moksha is attained.
THE TEN KINDS OF DHARMADHYAN
There is a beautiful exposition of the 10 or 12 factors. On each of the 4 kinds of meditations namely Artha etc., as stated in Dharmashataka, especially, in the commentary on the Avashyak Sutra, "Chavuhim Jhanehim". There is a detailed description of the Adhikari, the Linga, the Lakshana, the Phala of each of these
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